Unable to upgrade

Ubuntu
1

I get the following error when I check for upgrades:
"Unable to download updates:
W: An error occurred during the signature verification. The
repository is not updated and the previous index files will be used.
GPG error: https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com stable
InRelease: The following signatures couldn’t be verified because
the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY A8580BDC82D3DC6C"

BTW- I am connected to the main server for downloads. Plus I have uninstalled the Brave app.

Does anyone have a solution for this? Thanks ahead for any suggestion/solutions.

2

I found a link that might help. They are having an issue with Chrome, but otherwise the same issue I think. It sounds familiar. Maybe I had the same issue at some point.

Good luck.

3

This did not help, data is 5 years old, no longer used.

4

I think I would uninstall brave, then see if the system will do an upgrade.
Do a backup first.

5

You probably need to refresh the keys in your apt database. If you open a terminal and type

sudo apt-key adv --refresh-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com

Followed by

sudo apt-get update

That will hopefully solve the issue (NB, I don’t use Ubuntu, so I haven’t been able to try this out and verify that the keyserver is correct - maybe somebody else can confirm).

6

Nope, that did not work.
Warning: apt-key is deprecated. Manage keyring files in trusted.gpg.d instead (see apt-key(8)).

Is the reply I got.

Thanks anyway for helping.

7

Did that and it did not help. Same error.

8

There are a couple of apt commands you can try
apt-get autoclean
apt-get clean
They clean out package files
and
apt-get -f install
apt-get dist-upgrade
run those more than once. Clears dependdncy issues
and
apt-get --fix-missing ......
ignores things that cant be retrieved or are corrupted
and
apt-get check
updates cache and checkes for broken dependencies

If all that fails, I think you need a fresh install
Broken package systems can be unfixable.

9

Thanks for all the suggestions.
The way I got rid of the “errors” was by removing them from “etc/apt/sources.list.d”.
Everything is running fine again and updates are downloading. :+1:

10

What exactly did you remove?

11

These were the “E’s” I just removed and rebooted, every things is fine.
sudo rm -rf brave*.*
sudo rm -rf tsbarnes*.*

12

So you did not get brave from the official distro repositories?
That explains it.

13

The ONLY “official” repositories for Brave are Brave themselves! Distro vendors don’t offer it - it’s Chromium based, but does more - it’s my browser of choice, I briefly went back to Google Chrome for 2 weeks about 2 years ago - but COULDN’T stand all the ads I’d forgotten about. So - I use Brave for personal stuff (sync’d across 4 desktops [2 macos 2 linux]) and MS Edge for work stuff (using my work O365 account to sync, also, across 4 desktops).

I like your solution (remove the files from /etc/apt/sources.list.d/) - I often use this method if I come across “dependancy hell” - and I was just about to suggest this but saw you’d already arrived there :smiley:

On Linux Brave is installed from the shell :

sudo apt install curl
sudo curl -fsSLo /usr/share/keyrings/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg
echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg] https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/ stable main"|sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release.list
sudo apt update
sudo apt install brave-browser

I’d rather they were just like Google Chrome, where you could download a DEB file - but eh, the above works for me… I’ve never run into the OP’s issue with Brave but…

14

Well if it is like that, you should install it outside your package system… ie a hand install in /usr/local.

15

Thank you for the “shell”, Brave is once again installed and WITH NO ISSUES this time. :+1: